Also, regarding some of the comments above, we understand that each set-up has unique advantages. You're right that a SiC enail with a carb cap is indeed very efficient, and for some, is just what they're looking for! However, these enails are also easy to accidently leave on, creating a potentially dangerous situation. (The JDR heats instantly once the power button is engaged, and cools within seconds once the power button is released.)
Also, plugging in and dabbing within seconds is preferable to some, rather than using blow torches and a nail that stays quite hot for a while. (A concern for those with pets, especially!)
Thanks for your responses man, I do apologise for any redundant questions there, as I noticed some of those responses were already provided above when the threads were merged!
Respectfully, I have to raise a few contentions to what you've said above:
Your comparison's to blowtorches and nails are IMO not relevant. Your product doesn't compare with a torch and nail as your product requires mains power or car power. Most of the people using a torch and nail are those who for some reason cannot get mains/car power to their dab rig. Otherwise, cheap e-nails are a dime a dozen these days and many of those (even many of the ones that use titanium rather than tastier materials) will outperform your product given their superior heater controller capabilities to the simple manual rheostat control you guys use.
A torch and nail is not IMO likely to get pets injured, most of those who I know that use a torch + nail have pets (not kids - I don't know anyone that allows kids near a dab rig!) and no burns to pets have ever ensued. Torched nails do not stay hot for
that long.
You can put the nail away in minutes after a torch hit, even with SiC which retains heat longer than most other nails. Even if the torch and nail comparisons were reasonable (see my comments above - I do not believe they are), surely the hot part of your unit stays hot enough to hurt if touched in the immediate minutes after turning it off? I do not believe this to be a major gripe in either case, I must say.
Also man I don't know what you are talking about when you describe e-nails being left on as unsafe. I have left one of my e-nails on 24/7 almost without any downtime since 2014. There has never, ever been any danger, no burns, nothing. I don't know what kind of scenario you are imagining? I say this being one of the most safety minded people at FC, as many here will agree.
BTW, IMO pets and kids should never be in a room where an e-nail is set up and functioning when unattended (I would argue not at all actually). I'd never let kids or pets into a room where I had a rig or vape within reach to begin with, enail or no! Is anybody here that cavalier with their fragile, expensive property? If I am not in the room where my dab rig is, that room is locked!
I don't want kids near my medicine either. I keep all of my medications away from children. Of course, I make no judgement of those who may have different views about meds near kids, but the considerations about kids near rigs and expensive vapes still stands of course. They're inquisitive little ones and our equipment is too interesting looking for its own good in this scenario!
Your product as outlined to me (titanium screen, rheostat heated - ie: no automatic temp adjustment to account for ambient factors like an e-nail controller has) to my mind simply doesn't compete with any e-nail setup. It provides similar heat control (also application if you load before heating the unit up) to a non-TCR pen with a titanium coil. I stopped using those years ago as the taste is not good enough to justify use with my meds. Those last gen pens are much cheaper and obviously more portable than your product to boot
As I said above, your product seems to me to be very similar to a soldering iron with a screen attached to the hot tip. The price tag attached really makes that a very tough proposition to swallow IMO, especially given that more advanced, cheaper alternatives are already available.
For example: a Puffco+ with a TCR mod. This would offer a more portable, battery powered and pocketable solution which uses better tasting materials with no metal coils in contact with the load and also has temperature control to the degree, which is electronically stabilized to compensate ambient factors unlike your product. This setup can be had for less money than your beta product above.
Your product is not going to compete with an e-nail for efficiency, function or flavor, and is priced like a cheap e-nail setup already when it is still in beta! I am sure that many can appreciate where I am coming from here?
I want to acknowledge that Magic Flight have certainly been responsible for some seminal vapes that were some of the first to be widely adopted and popularize vaporization. I also have never heard anything bad about Magic Flight's service and warranty support and that is a rare and wonderful thing in this industry of late compared to my experiences with other vendors. I am not here to company bash at all, but in my view, this particular product can't compete with a large number of currently available products on price nor functioning.
